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zakharov
Nov 30, 2002

:kimchi: Tater Love :kimchi:
Ice Dancing: Figure Skating Without The Cool Parts

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Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Look at all these glorious options I have to watch:

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006


I was just kind of idly watching, but that move had me rooting for Slovakia the rest of the game.

Sure, it was a penalty, but lol.

turtlecrunch
May 14, 2013

Hesitation is defeat.

Big Beef City posted:

Look at all these glorious options I have to watch:



Doing it wrong/I don't even know what site you're on.

From http://www.nbcolympics.com/sport/freestyle-skiing


(etc.)

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007



Great, now we're gonna have Ice Twerking in 2018

Devor
Nov 30, 2004
Lurking more.
Jamaican bobsled team is coming up shortly.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Devor posted:

Jamaican bobsled team is coming up shortly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r71JHunY8rI

Devor
Nov 30, 2004
Lurking more.
The Jamaican Bobsled flipped over, it looks like they were both killed.

Bob Costas would be crying if his eyes could open.

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Devor posted:

Bob Costas would be crying if his eyes could open.

Bob Costas has been crying since before the Opening Ceremony.

Viscous, greenish yellow tears that crawl out of the tissue.

turtlecrunch
May 14, 2013

Hesitation is defeat.

EvilTobaccoExec
Dec 22, 2003

Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot, so my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts!

image of the century

dadrips
Jan 8, 2010

everything you do is a balloon
College Slice
Jamaican Space Program is go

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
Someone at nbc did some math and figured paid live stream would hurt prime time ratings therefore pissing off huge paying sponsors, vs "I hope a lot of nerds pay for live stream". Pretty simple. But Free market, bit coins, freeman on the land, whatever

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.
Curling owns so hard

Redgrendel2001
Sep 1, 2006

you literally think a person saying their NBA team of choice being better than the fucking 76ers is a 'schtick'

a literal thing you think.


Someone's been hanging out with the American snowboarding team.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
what the gently caress, canada? you can take finland out in three periods? shameful

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot
SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!

CANADA CANADA CANADA CANADA CANADA CANADA!!

nooo doubt about doughty!

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

dont post gifs of me irl

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Darth123123 posted:

Someone at nbc did some math and figured paid live stream would hurt prime time ratings therefore pissing off huge paying sponsors, vs "I hope a lot of nerds pay for live stream". Pretty simple. But Free market, bit coins, freeman on the land, whatever

nbc desperately clinging to the viability of cable television

"b-b-but the sponsors!!! :qq:"

Cthulu Carl posted:

I was just kind of idly watching, but that move had me rooting for Slovakia the rest of the game.

Sure, it was a penalty, but lol.

dont mess with the slovakian bull if you dont want the horns

zakharov
Nov 30, 2002

:kimchi: Tater Love :kimchi:
Is curling the only sport where you can wear giant hoop earrings while competing?

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot
Can someone explain to me how the group points are counted in Olympic hockey? Canada won but only has 8 points advancing forward? idgi

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Durzel posted:

The Russian women's curling team is crazy hot, and the Swedish team isn't? Very confusing.

swedish women are overrated

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Agrajag posted:

Can someone explain to me how the group points are counted in Olympic hockey? Canada won but only has 8 points advancing forward? idgi

Olympic hockey rules, simplified:

1. Canada wins
2. If Canada isn't winning, check rule one.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

FrozenVent posted:

Olympic hockey rules, simplified:

1. Canada wins
2. If Canada isn't winning, check rule one.

This applies always.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Darkman Fanpage posted:

nbc desperately clinging to the viability of cable television

"b-b-but the sponsors!!! :qq:"

What? Cable isn't viable now? I thought I saw a 45b deal. What should nbc do, this Olympics, not in 2028 btw.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

WE ONLY LIKE YOU FOR YOUR DRUGS

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Agrajag posted:

Can someone explain to me how the group points are counted in Olympic hockey? Canada won but only has 8 points advancing forward? idgi

I think you get fewer points for overtime wins.

It's like partial credit because you had to ask nicely for extra time to do your job.

Zat
Jan 16, 2008

Agrajag posted:

Can someone explain to me how the group points are counted in Olympic hockey? Canada won but only has 8 points advancing forward? idgi

3 points for regulation win
2 points for OT/SO win
1 point for OT/SO loss

Canada has two regulation wins and one OT win.

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

Zat posted:

3 points for regulation win
2 points for OT/SO win
1 point for OT/SO loss

Canada has two regulation wins and one OT win.

You get a point for losing? This is unacceptable.

PsychoInternetHawk
Apr 4, 2011

Perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
Grimey Drawer

Cthulu Carl posted:

I think you get fewer points for overtime wins.

It's like partial credit because you had to ask nicely for extra time to do your job.

That's terrible, OT games are the best games, especially at the Olympic level where every team had to qualify and you don't get lovely 0-0 abortions between two lousy teams.

It also punishes awesome close rivalry games like US/Russia

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot
What is this? The thank you for trying games?

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

PsychoInternetHawk posted:

That's terrible, OT games are the best games, especially at the Olympic level where every team had to qualify and you don't get lovely 0-0 abortions between two lousy teams.

It also punishes awesome close rivalry games like US/Russia

But at the same time, they're there to win a game in three periods, so get that poo poo done.

That said, there needs to be a separate event that is just shoot-outs. Because I could watch that poo poo all day.

Is Czech Republic v. Slovakia going to be a bloodbath?



EDIT: Holy poo poo, that Norwegian snowboarder screaming as she bounces off the course... :stare:

Cthulu Carl fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Feb 16, 2014

Zat
Jan 16, 2008

The 3-2-1 point system makes perfect sense when you think of OT games as glorified ties.

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Goddamn, this Snowboard Cross course is a loving deathtrap too.

That's two girls screaming into their crashes, and this is just with individual boarders on the course, not groups :stonk:

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Cthulu Carl posted:

Goddamn, this Snowboard Cross course is a loving deathtrap too.

That's two girls screaming into their crashes, and this is just with individual boarders on the course, not groups :stonk:

putin's plan to slowly cripple the west is coming along nicely

Photex
Apr 6, 2009




Darkman Fanpage posted:

putin's plan to slowly cripple the west is coming along nicely

and he's doing it with snow from the middle east.

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

Photex posted:

and he's doing it with snow from the middle east.

TERRORIST SNOW?!?! I knew it! The Chechens did attack the Olympics!

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

There it is, ladies and gentleman, an historic moment in anthropology.

We've found the whitest man ever.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

FrozenVent posted:

There it is, ladies and gentleman, an historic moment in anthropology.

We've found the whitest man ever.

The more you know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwDgA9LUVMA

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Al Nipper
May 7, 2008

by XyloJW
Snowboard Cross is the greatest thing. It's what I imagined future Olympics being like when I was a kid. Only there were hoverboards and spike traps.

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